Getting Old
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Just a Bluesky lurker, for now. Interested in Chicago, biking, transit, urbanism, liberalism, baseball, tech, gaming, etc.
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Dick Durbin can room with Merrick Garland in the Neville Chamberlain Retirement Home.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Dick Durbin can room with Merrick Garland in the Neville Chamberlain Retirement Home.
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One thing today has solidified for me is that I'm voting for Kat Abu, even though in most ways I like Biss better. I just don't feel as certain he will fight
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
One thing today has solidified for me is that I'm voting for Kat Abu, even though in most ways I like Biss better. I just don't feel as certain he will fight
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Dick Durbin wanted his legacy to be killing your mother because she can’t afford cancer treatment.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Dick Durbin wanted his legacy to be killing your mother because she can’t afford cancer treatment.
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imagine, just imagine agreeing to compromise with the authoritarian government that has their boots fully on the neck of the city in your state that gave you your entire career. congratulations, you are coward Sen. Dick Durbin.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
imagine, just imagine agreeing to compromise with the authoritarian government that has their boots fully on the neck of the city in your state that gave you your entire career. congratulations, you are coward Sen. Dick Durbin.
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This is the time to keep fighting to bring costs down and protect the American people.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is the time to keep fighting to bring costs down and protect the American people.
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Any Democrat in Congress who would accept a promise from a Republican in Congress should undergo a cognitive test.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Any Democrat in Congress who would accept a promise from a Republican in Congress should undergo a cognitive test.
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this “deal” is embarrassingly bad and every Dem who supports it deserves to be primaried
Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane
Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
this “deal” is embarrassingly bad and every Dem who supports it deserves to be primaried
Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane
Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane
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I am NOT donating to the DNC or DLCC until the leadership stands up to Trump; the party doesn't cave into his demands. What part of "he's on the ropes now" does the party leadership not get. Cave in again and the party has once again lost credibility. DO NOT CAVE; compromise to our strengths.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am NOT donating to the DNC or DLCC until the leadership stands up to Trump; the party doesn't cave into his demands. What part of "he's on the ropes now" does the party leadership not get. Cave in again and the party has once again lost credibility. DO NOT CAVE; compromise to our strengths.
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“What I need you to know is we are organized.
“What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
“What I need you to know is they are coming.
“What I need you to know is you can stop them.”
“What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
“What I need you to know is they are coming.
“What I need you to know is you can stop them.”
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
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October 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“What I need you to know is we are organized.
“What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
“What I need you to know is they are coming.
“What I need you to know is you can stop them.”
“What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
“What I need you to know is they are coming.
“What I need you to know is you can stop them.”
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Attend a No Kings protest Oct. 18. Bring family and friends.
Give $$ to groups fighting fascism, such as Democracy Docket & ACLU.
Support truth-telling media such as Guardian & ProPublica.
Reach out to any persuadable people you know who have leaned toward Trump.
Get active while you still can.
Give $$ to groups fighting fascism, such as Democracy Docket & ACLU.
Support truth-telling media such as Guardian & ProPublica.
Reach out to any persuadable people you know who have leaned toward Trump.
Get active while you still can.
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Attend a No Kings protest Oct. 18. Bring family and friends.
Give $$ to groups fighting fascism, such as Democracy Docket & ACLU.
Support truth-telling media such as Guardian & ProPublica.
Reach out to any persuadable people you know who have leaned toward Trump.
Get active while you still can.
Give $$ to groups fighting fascism, such as Democracy Docket & ACLU.
Support truth-telling media such as Guardian & ProPublica.
Reach out to any persuadable people you know who have leaned toward Trump.
Get active while you still can.
Impactful read. "This is how we live now: our ordinary places become something else, in an instant, subject to the whims of some bastard out to inflict cruelty or having a bad day or just following orders or a combination of it all."
ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…
October 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Impactful read. "This is how we live now: our ordinary places become something else, in an instant, subject to the whims of some bastard out to inflict cruelty or having a bad day or just following orders or a combination of it all."
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State cops literally assisted ICE in assaulting and arresting people who had been actively complying with the demands of state police. Folks were on the sidewalk, and ICE marched up and attacked the crowd for a photo op. IL state cops helped. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must be held accountable.
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
State cops literally assisted ICE in assaulting and arresting people who had been actively complying with the demands of state police. Folks were on the sidewalk, and ICE marched up and attacked the crowd for a photo op. IL state cops helped. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must be held accountable.
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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This is genuine secret police shit
What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
![Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.
Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.
“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreib66z6racbfo5llgukbvmldxq44zaa7nqetkcs5cwxfez6xcec5oy@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is genuine secret police shit
Giving up the 2-out HR. A Cubs special this year 😠#cubs
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Giving up the 2-out HR. A Cubs special this year 😠#cubs
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Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
September 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
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September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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We're with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on the govt funding fight:
The Dem ask *shouldn't* be for policy wins. The demand should be that Trump end the lawlessness -- e.g. no masked feds, no federalizing the nat'l guard for no reason, no impoundment etc.
That's an argument that can be won. #MEpolitics
The Dem ask *shouldn't* be for policy wins. The demand should be that Trump end the lawlessness -- e.g. no masked feds, no federalizing the nat'l guard for no reason, no impoundment etc.
That's an argument that can be won. #MEpolitics
September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We're with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on the govt funding fight:
The Dem ask *shouldn't* be for policy wins. The demand should be that Trump end the lawlessness -- e.g. no masked feds, no federalizing the nat'l guard for no reason, no impoundment etc.
That's an argument that can be won. #MEpolitics
The Dem ask *shouldn't* be for policy wins. The demand should be that Trump end the lawlessness -- e.g. no masked feds, no federalizing the nat'l guard for no reason, no impoundment etc.
That's an argument that can be won. #MEpolitics
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If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.